2017-18 Community Grant Awardees

Home HeadQuarters Inc.: The Healthy Homes Classes project will offer free residential classes to Syracuse homeowners and renters on how to reduce exposure to indoor environmental toxins as well as how to decrease energy consumption.

The Buffalo Zoo: The Teaching K-12 Pollution Prevention through Art and Sciences project will educate and engage K-12 students and teachers on pollution prevention practices, specifically how to prevent stormwater run-off pollution and plastic bag pollution.

Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition: The Planting the Seeds of Prevention Education: Capacity Building Among Young Leaders project will develop a leadership program for Long Island youth, empowering them to make safer personal care product choices with the long-term goal of pollution prevention.

Center for Environmental Initiatives: The Watershed Education and Outreach project will develop pollution-prevention, water-based educational programming, including a summit for educators and education stakeholders to share management practices that will reduce and prevent pollutants at their source in Rochester, NY.

Radix Ecological Sustainability Center: The Community Compost Initiative project will reduce and divert food waste from landfills by expanding a compost collection and education system in the Albany area.

New York State Business Institute: The Business Leadership on Safer Materials project will encourage and support New York state businesses to reduce toxic chemicals in the workplace through development of educational materials and also by connecting businesses that seek this change with one another.

AdkAction: The Road Salt Pollution Prevention in the Adirondacks project will provide public road management professionals, the New York State Department of Transportation and Adirondack municipalities with research on the environmental impacts of road salt and best practices for adopting and using road salt sustainably.

Clean and Healthy NY: The Pollution Prevention in the Child Care Setting will provide technical support and educational resources project to child care providers across New York State who wish to transition to safer products and materials.

Hudson Valley Regional Council: The Feeding the Hudson Valley project will work to reduce and divert food waste through educating the public at a large public event in October 2017 that will feed the community with rescued and donated food.

Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation: The Citizen Science in New York City School Communities project will engage New York City public school students as environmental health and pollution-prevention researchers who will collect, analyze and compare air pollution data from neighborhoods in each of the city’s five boroughs.